Out of the News: Former Journalists Discuss a Profession in Crisis

This is a work of media history and media criticism with a human face. It presents profiles of 11 journalists who left some of the country's biggest mainstream media outlets, and took on new career challenges. Their stories give the reader a vivid sense of what it means to be a reporter and to cover big news events. But this book goes beyond media memoir.

The book also explores the factors that led talented people to re-assess the profession they loved, and raises profound questions about t...